Wayne Bornholdt is a retired bookseller who lives in Western Michigan with his wife, Susan, and three Golden Retrievers. He holds degrees in philosophy and theological studies. His poetry has been published in Ekstasis, the Berkeley Poetry Review, Pace Journal, Vita Poetica, the Amethyst Review, and other literary journals. When not writing or playing with the dogs, he works on improving his tennis and tries to make a dent in the stacks of unread books in his study. He is currently working on writing poems based on themes from St. Augustine’s Confessions, as well as an ekphrastic series on Mark Rothko’s paintings.